The 30 Best WordPress Widgets & Plugins

WordPress widgets can easily be added to any widget-ready areas of your theme such as your sidebar, header, and footer. This is very easy and fun to do and requires no coding knowledge at all. To find the list of available widgets and widget areas, go to the Appearance » Widgets section in your WordPress dashboard, drag and drop your desired widgets in to the sidebar or widgetized section of your choosing. After dragging and dropping the widget, configure and save the widget settings. That’s it.

In this article, I would like to share with you 30 best WordPress widgets and plugins to help you build your custom page layout in no time. No coding, easy and fun!

Better Delete Revision not only deletes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress Database, it also deletes other database content related to each revision such meta information, tags, relationships, and more. It is compatible with the latest version of WordPress (3.x) with improved features.

It’s never been easier to add Google analytics and event tracking to your websites. This in combination with a campaing url generator tool makes a powerfull WordPress plugin to get the most out of Google Analytics.

Opening Hours is an easy-to-use wordpress plugin for displaying your business hours. It allows you and/or your clients to set up and maintain business hours in an intuitive and complete visual way. No more spaghetti-code in your sidebar!

Live Chat from Casengo is Customer Support Software that allows you to add live Chat to your blog or website quickly and easily. With Casengo, you can handle inquiries via email, Twitter, Facebook and Live Chat directly from your website.

Rhino Live Support is a WordPress Plugin that lets you to chat live with your customers and give direct assistance where it’s needed – at any time! Unlimited operators and departments, invite website visitors, transfer customers, IP-Location, advanced statistics and much more…

This plugin creates a widget which displays all the contact details in a clear and elegant way. It displays the contact information in tabs, so only one contact section is open at a time. It is also possible to embed contact forms and Google Maps.

Improve credibility and encourage visitors to purchase products with this plugin. You can display testimonials from your clients in a sidebar through the Testimonials Ultimate widget or you can display them in a page or post through the short-code.

If you want to create tabs with your own widgets nice and easily without any PHP/HTML/CSS knowledge, this plugin is just right for you! All you need to do is to drag and drop widgets and this great plugin automatically will create tabs on your page! Enjoy!

This Plugin Links Social Media Icons to Your Social Media Profiles Twitter,Facebook,Pinterest,Youtube,Rss Feed,Linkedin,google plus. You can make the social media icons to appear automatically or you can use social media widgets, short-code or PHP code to display the social media icons where ever you like to want. If you choose to show Social Media Icon automatically. The icons will fly from top left to bottom right and the social media icons will stay there even if user scrolls the page, thus it floats.

With this plugin you can display news from one or more RSS or Atom feeds. The news can be displayed with one of the 4 views I’ve included, or you can create your own view so you can customize how the news items are shown.

Designed for simplicity and flexibility, Simple Page Sidebars gives WordPress users, designers, and developers the ability to assign custom sidebars to individual pages–without making any template changes. Existing sidebars can also be assigned in quick edit and bulk edit modes, helping save you time.

Display relevant content on your pages. You can now replace an existing sidebar (widget area) with a custom sidebar for one or group of pages, templates, posts, custom post types, taxonomies, etc (any combination). The content of the new sidebar will be displayed on the exact same spot as the one you select to replace only for those pages you selected. Check out the live preview by following the link to see examples and get ideas on what can be done with the sidebar widget manager for WordPress.

Astero utilizes Ajax technology and local caching for fast loading of weather forecasts that supports a fixed location or user geolocation. Create stunning weather widgets with animated backgrounds, custom images or a clean and minimalist look easily with the shortcode builder. Scripts and styles are loaded conditionally to minimize HTTP requests, and Html5 caching is enabled to increase loading speed and avoid API call limits. Use as a widget, shortcode, or both!

Supreme Widgets is a Premium WordPress plugin made to enhance your website with much needed social and marketing features! From Facebook Page like box, Simple Twitter stream and Social network with Font Awesome icon, to Contact Form with captcha, Responsive Google Ads and Google Maps.

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